ENTERIC FEVER IN A CHILD FOUR MONTHS AND A HALF OLD.

Enteric Fever: A Slow Response to an Old Plague

1 Hospital Infantil de México, Federico Gómez, México D.F., México, 2 Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Albany, Georgia, United States of America, 3 Precision Developmental Research and Advocacy Consultants, Karachi, Pakistan, 4 Hospital Civil de Guadalajara, “Fray Antonio Alcalde”, Guadalajara, México, 5 Unidad de Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méx...

A 50 Year Old Man with Fever and Abdominal Pain

The patient is a 50-year-old man who has been diagnosed with abdominal pain, fever, shivering and constipation with nausea and vomiting with a possible diagnosis of typhoid. Computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis was performed by injection of contrast agent for the patient. What is your diagnosis?

Q fever endocarditis in a 6-year-old child.

A 6-year-old boy with a congenital bicuspid aortic valve presented with finger clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthopathy, and subsequently he developed severe hypertension. The hypertension was successfully treated by nephrectomy, at which a thrombosed mycotic aneurysm of the renal artey was found. Echocardiography showed the presence of aortic valve vegetations. Blood cultures were sterile, bu...

Meningeal Anthrax in a Twelve-Year Old Child in Iran

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...